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When my church joined an international cult
By Rhys Hagan
It had been a year since I saw my family. In the Army, it was a year of obeying orders, marching routines, weapons drills, fire and movement, and making beds my non-commissioned officers (NCOs) could bounce a coin on.
Still, the wide eyes and strange rumours that passed to me from family and friends piqued my curiosity — I’d missed something big.
I had left a small Christian church that was ambitious but still grounded in what I believed to be community values and selfless ideals. I returned to a church that had joined a radical, international network spurred to indoctrinate the broader community: the ISAAC Network.
“The years since my separation from the cult have been kind. I can, once again, pursue creative expression — something that was discouraged in the church.”
Rhys Hagan
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